On June 20, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>  >   I'm an accomplished programmer, but compiler technology isn't my
>  > strong suit.  Perhaps there are some other areas of GCC's
>  > innards...general non-compiler-related speedup techniques (hash tables
>  > vs. searching arrays, that sort of thing) that might need some
>  > attention, but I suspect issues of that sort would have been dealt
>  > with long ago.
> 
> You'd be surprised.  There's a lot of stupid algorithmic things
> in there that could be fixed.

  How far along is their optimization effort?  Have they gotten into
in-depth profiling and such, do you know offhand?  I would like to
help if I can, if I can find the time.

        -Dave

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